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Crystal structure of Atg40 AIM fused to Atg8
Structural highlights
FunctionATG40_YEAST Acts as a receptor for reticulophagy. Directs autophagic sequestration of folded tubules/sheets derived from the cortical endoplasmic reticulum (cER) and the cytoplasmic endoplasmic reticulum (cytoER) into autophagosomes. Is not required for the cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting pathway, mitophagy, pexophagy, and non-selective autophagy.[1] ATG8_YEAST Involved in cytoplasm to vacuole transport (Cvt) vesicles and autophagosomes formation. With ATG4, may mediate the delivery of the vesicles and autophagosomes to the vacuole via the microtubule cytoskeleton. Participates also in membrane fusion events that take place in the early secretory pathway.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Publication Abstract from PubMedThe endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is selectively degraded by autophagy (ER-phagy) through proteins called ER-phagy receptors. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Atg40 acts as an ER-phagy receptor to sequester ER fragments into autophagosomes by binding Atg8 on forming autophagosomal membranes. During ER-phagy, parts of the ER are morphologically rearranged, fragmented, and loaded into autophagosomes, but the mechanism remains poorly understood. Here we find that Atg40 molecules assemble in the ER membrane concurrently with autophagosome formation via multivalent interaction with Atg8. Atg8-mediated super-assembly of Atg40 generates highly-curved ER regions, depending on its reticulon-like domain, and supports packing of these regions into autophagosomes. Moreover, tight binding of Atg40 to Atg8 is achieved by a short helix C-terminal to the Atg8-family interacting motif, and this feature is also observed for mammalian ER-phagy receptors. Thus, this study significantly advances our understanding of the mechanisms of ER-phagy and also provides insights into organelle fragmentation in selective autophagy of other organelles. Super-assembly of ER-phagy receptor Atg40 induces local ER remodeling at contacts with forming autophagosomal membranes.,Mochida K, Yamasaki A, Matoba K, Kirisako H, Noda NN, Nakatogawa H Nat Commun. 2020 Jul 3;11(1):3306. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17163-y. PMID:32620754[11] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences
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